SF News False Alarm: BART Directors Don't Want Nat Ford Either Yesterday's rumor from the generally reliable Matier & Ross speculating that Nat Ford was in the running for BART's top spot was apparently way off base. According to a couple members of BART's
SF News Ex-Muni Chief Nat Ford Could Be Ruining BART Next Nat Ford might be out at Muni, but as Chronicle super sleuths Matier and Ross report this morning, the much-loathed golden parachutist could be in the running to fill a vacancy as BART's
SF News SFMTA Approves Nat Ford's Big Payout While Pool of Replacement Candidates Shrinks Slightly At the SFMTA meeting last night, board members unanimously approved Nat Ford's $384,000 separation agreement. That "poof" sound you're hearing is Ford's golden parachute deploying to slow his fall after years of
SF News SFMTA Chief Nat Ford Leaving His Job Nathaniel Ford, the (infamous?) San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief, plans on leaving his job later this month. The Chronicle, who broke the news, reports: "The governing board will meet in closed session
SF News Muni Takes Another Stab at the Transit Effectiveness Plan Way back in the heady days of 2006, when Muni actually wanted to know what riders thought about things like the frequency of buses during rush hour, the SFMTA launched the Transit Effectiveness
SF News Muni Operators Aspire to Achieve Same Level of Absenteeism as Their Chief We already know Muni Chief Nat Ford hasn't been around the office very much in the past year, but what of the troops on the ground? Have they been showing up to work
SF News Guard Your Purses and Wallets: Muni Pass Prices Increase Again in July This just in from the SFMTA by way of the ever-vigilante Muni watchdogs at Muni Diaries: Adult "A" Fast Pass prices will go up to $72 per month starting July 1. Likewise, the
SF News Muni Chief Nat Ford's Vacation Schedule Exposed On the Bay Citizen this weekend, the New York Times farm team dug up a list of the Muni Chief's absences in 2010, and for one of the city's highest paid public officials
SF News Nat Ford Watch: MTA Board Goes Easy on Wayward Muni Chief for Now We've been keeping an eye on Nat Ford's possible departure to Washington DC (or Northern Virginia, rather) for awhile now and after today's closed-session, come-to-Jesus meeting between Ford and the MTA board, it
SF News Nat Ford Watch: DC Job Seems Unlikely, SFMTA Schedules Some Time for a Heart-to-Heart As we mentioned yesterday, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's decision to postpone hiring a new Executive Director has exposed our Muni Chief's desire to get the eff out of San Francisco and probably
SF News Meanwhile, in Washington: Airport Authority Not Sure They Want Nat Ford Either Over in DC, it seems that the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is split on whether or not they want Nat Ford. In an informal poll that doesn't really mean anything,
SF News Rumors Say Muni Chief is Poised to Make Washingtonians Late to the Airport Back in September, rumors went around that Nat Ford had a pretty good chance of landing a top position with the the DC Metro - of course, that didn't amount to anything. Nat
SF News Pointless Muni Investigation Uncovers the Obvious by Chris Jones God Emperor of Muni, Nat Ford, has decided to get more aggressive about hunting down fare evaders in an attempt to bridge the enormous budget gap faced by the city's
misc MTA director Nat Ford is ebullient as he announces the launch of CatBus service Source: the ever-brilliant Jim Herd at the Anime Costume Parade.
misc Breaking Muni News is Mostly a Bunch of Blah Blah Blah Gavin: Nat is as frustrated as everybody else. We want change on the margins. Eliminating bus stops. The line I take down polk never has more than 10 people; It takes 10 minutes.
misc At Least You Can Get Some Email Done While You're Crawling Along Hey, which would you rather have: a bus that comes on time, or a bus that comes late but has a nifty antenna on top? Well who cares what you want! You're getting
misc Giant Hulking Muni Takes a Terrifying Interest in Small, Innocent Transportation Authority The TA, if you're unfamiliar, was created a couple of years ago by a voter mandate. Muni was in awful shape at that time (unimaginable, we know), and an voters needed an alternative
misc Muni Playing Catch-Up with West Portal Fix-Up "Underinvestment in the Muni system has brought us to a point where we cannot postpone this work," says Muni boss Nat Ford. Apparently, while they were replacing the decrepit wiring in the West
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
SF News Leaked Muni Memo: "we need to take steps to ensure that unacceptable conduct does not continue" There's probably no shortage of folks who'll claim that this is yet another polite platitude. But check out this leaked Muni memo from Nat Ford: "we need to take steps to ensure that
SF News Day Around The Bay --It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the
SF News Sure to be a Very Pleasant Conversation (if you Leave Your Torches and Pitchfoks at Home) Well is going to be awkward: a public town-hall meeting with Muni Director Nat Ford. It's this Wednesday, May 16, at noon; at the Ferry Building in the Port Conference Room on the
SF News Muni Discovery: Windshield Wipers not an Adequite Remedy for Flop Sweat UPDATE! Let's just pretend that our embarassingly mispelled hedline is a Lindsay Lohan joke. Yeah, sure, that's the ticket. Thanks for sending in pix and video of your own experiences with Muni's near-meltdown
SF News "We recognize that the quality of service Muni has provided is unacceptable." UPDATE! Since this post went up 45 minutes ago, Muni has removed the apology from its site. We expect a new statement to be issued any minute, declaring that Muni regrets nothing, would
